♦ Shellenbarger, Sue (August 29, 2012). Teaching Kids to Love Math: A worksheet for Math-phobic parents. Wall Street Journal on-line. Retrieved September 19, 2012. SILC co-PI, Susan C. Levine, is mentioned in the article: [Author] Sue Shellenbarger shared that she received a great response to the column and Susan Levine [mentioned in Paragrah 4] followed up with some other resources for parents interested in promoting mathematics learning among their preschoolers (quoted from William Harms, University of Chicago). Sue Shellenbarger's follow-up to her article: (September 25, 2012) Sue Shellenbarger answers readers' questions. Retrieved September 26, 2012: SILC Co-PIs, Susan Levine and Susan Goldin-Meadow, have been working on an update of the early childhood Everyday Mathematics curriculum, which is mentioned in a feature article on the University of Chicago website: Harms, William (March 3, 2012). Solving the puzzle of early learning. Retrieved September 26, 2012:

♦ Our SILC Faculty Member, Terry Regier has been exploring work on kinship, which draws on and develops the same general principles as his work on space and his earlier work on color.Retrieved June 14, 2012:

♦ SILC will be well represented at the upcoming CSS Conference in Sapporo, Japan, from 8/1 to 8/4 (Posted April 5, 2012):

Daniele Nardi, a former SILC postdoc now at La Sapienza in Rome has organized a symposium entitled "How Vertical Spaces Are Perceived and Represented". Other presenters are Steve Weisberg, a SILC graduate student from Temple, Frank Durgin from Swarthmore and Kate Jeffery from UCL.

Another graduate student from Temple, Ilyse Resnick, will be presenting an oral paper on “Examining the Representation and Understanding of Large Magnitudes Using the Hierarchical Alignment Model of Analogical Reasoning”.

From Northwestern University, Dedre Gentner and Stella Christie are part of a symposium on analogy where SILC work will be presented. Andrew Lovett is speaking about his Geometric Analogy model; the new model now accounts for over 90% of the variance in the behavioral data! And Ken Forbus will present at an intuitive physics symposium.

Chris Young, a SILC postdoc from the University of Chicago is presenting a poster on “Development of Graphical Understanding”.

Another SILC participant is Terry Regier from Berkeley, who has a paper accepted for oral presentation entitled “Grounding spatial language in non-linguistic cognition, co-authored with colleagues Michael Pacer and Alexandra Carstensen.

♦ Two of our SILC Faculty Members, Nora S. Newcombe (PI) and Thomas F. Shipley, delivered lectures on February 10, 2012 at the Department of Geography at Pennsylvania State University. For more information click on the flyer to the left.Permanent link here: